i.MX consolidation patches

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Sascha Hauer,

In message <20110603120258.GR23771 at pengutronix.de> you wrote:
>
> > I'm not a friend of using magic values that are "totally-impossible".
> > This is confusing, and here it is not needed.
> 
> I find using a field labelled 'entry point' and 'load address' as
> absolute addresses or offsets into sdram depending on some flag
> also quite confusing. btw how do you want to decide whether the
> fields are offsets or absolute addresses? I see no flags field in
> the uImage format.

I would define a new image type.  Instead of "-T kernel" we could for
example use a new type "-T relkernel" to indicate that addresses are
relative to start of system RAM.

> > If we could agree to interpret load address and entry point as
> > offsets, the only remaining problem is to find out if we can use a
> > common offset.
> 
> The zImages encapsulated in uImages are relocatable. So pick any offset
> between 32k and 128MB into sdram like Russell explained. Higher values
> are not desirable as this would break boards with less sdram.

What about the images without the preloader?  You know that U-Boot
already provides all the needed code to perform the uncompressing, so
it would be nice if we could avoid to include this into each and every
image.  Is the raw kernel image, without the preloader, also
relocatable and can be started at any address (keeping above
restrictions in mind, of course)?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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